“A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.”

—  Albert Pike

Diogenes of Sinope, as quoted in Pearls of Thought (1882), edited by Maturin Murray Ballou, p. 22
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